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A couple of weeks ago, we told you about a teacher's strike in West Virginia.

We are United. We are United.

They worked. Teachers there ended up with a 5% pay raise. But West Virginia was only the beginning.

Teachers are talking about walking out in Arizona. They've already taken it to the streets in Kentucky and their

walkouts all over Oklahoma. They even got a theme song.

Right now, it's pretty intense in Oklahoma schools across the state are shut down again today.

The teachers say they are not backing down for one teachers. They are asking. They're more

ambitious than what West Virginia teachers asked for. They want not only a pay raise for themselves

and other state employees, but they actually want the state to restore funding to public education that has

been cut and cut and cut in the past 10 years. Alexia Fernandez Campbell writes about economic policy at

Vox. Teachers there have not gotten a raise from the state in 10 years and adjusted for inflation. That

means they're actually getting paid less than they were. So the more of them are working extra jobs.

They're driving Uber. They're working at, you know, at the clothing store at Walmart. And above that,

they're class sizes have been growing as the state has been cutting the budget for education.

And it really, like the turning point was not only were West Virginia teachers striking around the same

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